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Liposuction Medical Tourism

Medical tourism with the destination Poland is very popular. Liposuction medical tourism is a major form of medical tourism for Poland. This site helps you find the right medical clinic to help you with liposuction procedures.

First we will provide a little background on liposuction. Liposuction is a procedure that can help sculpt the body by removing unwanted fat from specific areas, including the abdomen, hips, buttocks, thighs, knees, upper arms, chin, cheeks and neck. During the past decade, liposuction has benefited from several new refinements. Today, a number of new techniques, including ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty (UAL), the tumescent technique, and the super-wet technique, are helping many plastic surgeons to provide selected patients with more precise results and quicker recovery times. Although no type of liposuction is a substitute for dieting and exercise, liposuction can remove stubborn areas of fat that don't respond to traditional weight-loss methods.

This liposuction page will help you get the procedure done efficiently and at low cost. It does not provide medical advice. Please be sure to consult your doctor to be sure that it fits your circumstances.

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Why Liposuction In Poland?

Poland, a member of the European Union, is a very attractive location for medical tourism. The attraction of medical tourism is partly driven by regulations requiring western European insurance companies to pay for some kinds of dental and medical procedures done in other EU states. With the cost of dental work in the east often a fourth to a half the German price, it's clear why more and more insurers are agreeing to pay. While this page gives many examples of medical tourism related to people from Western Europe, the prices of medical services are so low and the quality of service so high that medical tourism travel to Poland from anywhere in the world is very cost effective.

Poland Plastic Surgery 'Tourism', Dental Medical Tourism and fertility treatment are very popular. A rising number of Germans and others from western Europe are traveling to Poland - and other new EU members such as Hungary and Slovakia - to pay less for plastic surgery, fertility treatment and dental work.

It's a trend that has accelerated since Poland joined the European Union on May 1, along with nine other countries, most from the former Soviet bloc. Source: [Washington Post]

For Example:

Aylin Oflas couldn't afford to get the fat liposuctioned from her thighs at home in Germany. So she went back across the border to the Polish doctor who had fitted her with breast implants last year - and asked what he could do.

It didn't take the 18-year-old Berliner long to choose Poland once again for her latest transformation.

"For what it costs in Germany to get rid of the fat in my inner thighs, the doctor here will also take out fat around my knees and in my lower back," Oflas said after driving more than two hours to consult with her surgeon in Szczecin. "And I'll even be able to get my lips made bigger while I'm at it."

The price: $3,300 - against $12,300 in Germany.

Plastic surgery is much cheaper, too.

Breast enlargement, for instance, starts at around $3,200 in Poland, but runs between $6,150 and $9,800 in Germany. A nose job costs $2,000 to $2,500 in Poland, $4,900 to $7,400 in Germany.

Despite the cheaper cost, people have questions about the quality of care in a region that is still poorer than the West.

Maciej Pastucha, the surgeon who inserted two silicone implants into Oflas's chest, said that the number of his Germans patients has doubled in the past year, but that they are still wary.

"Half of them don't trust me during the first talks on the phone or consultations," Pastucha, 43, said in an interview at his clinic housing both modern surgical rooms and a family-style kitchen and living room to make patients feel at home. "They ask many questions about my diplomas, my experience, what techniques I use."

"And they want to see photos," he added. "When they see pictures of my results, from this moment, they trust me somewhat. But not 100 percent."

Pier and Hanna Jensen, a retired couple, made the seven-hour trip by car and ferry from Copenhagen, Denmark's capital, to Szczecin, where they underwent extensive dental surgery at a clinic they learned about on Danish television.

They said their procedures - including crown and bridge work - would have cost $17,000 more in Denmark. That's a huge saving, even with the cost of travel and four nights in a hotel, and they get partial reimbursement from their insurance company. Before Poland joined the EU, none of the work would have been reimbursed by insurance, they said.

"We're saving a lot of money," Pier Jensen, 67, said as he and his wife finished dinner in a restaurant where they had been urging other Danish tourists at a nearby table to get their dental work done here, too. "And the dentists here are fantastic."

Oflas said she likes Polish doctors better.

"In Germany, they are cold," she said. "The doctor here does what's best for the patient."

Oflas, who plans to start hairdressing school once she has her liposuction done, said a German doctor who removed her stitches after her breast enlargement scolded her when he learned she had the surgery in Poland.

"He said, 'You didn't go there because they're better, but just to save money,'" she recalled. "But he said that while I was still dressed. When he saw how beautiful they are, he was shocked."

And here is another:

When Loman O'Dowd of County Donegal, Ireland, retired last year after decades of hard work, he felt the urge to travel, to see the world.

He also needed extensive and expensive dental work. His asthma was acting up as well. So this month, O'Dowd, a retired horticulturist, took care of both his wanderlust and his medical needs during a 10-day trip to Hungary.

He toured the ancient castle in Buda. He had dental bridges and fillings put in. He stayed in a luxury apartment overlooking the Danube. He had daily inhalation treatments at an asthma cave. He played golf and ate goulash.

"I've been all over and the total cost - including the airfare- will be far less than what dental would cost me at home," he said, in a tidy waiting room, just after his final dental appointment in downtown Budapest. "I would recommend this in a second."

A growing number of people from Western Europe and even the United States are becoming medical tourists, traveling by plane to faraway countries to get cheap medical care that would be prohibitively expensive and sometimes involve long waits at home.

There are no exact numbers, but it is a booming business in places like the former Eastern bloc countries - both for doctors and dentists, as well as for the tour operators in countries like Ireland, Britain and Denmark who help organize the trips.

Traditionally, only the very wealthy traveled for medical care. They flew to the United States and Western Europe when they developed a serious illness like cancer or needed heart bypass surgery, for example.

But these days, the far larger medical migration is in the opposite direction, as medical costs have skyrocketed and insurance coverage has diminished in many developed nations. Patients come here for elective or semi-elective procedures that are covered poorly or not at all by insurance and national health plans: things like major dental work, corrective vision surgery or routine heart evaluations.

For patients, the prospect of getting substandard care abroad has become less of an issue, as medicine has become both more globalized and mechanized in the last decade: An increasing number of doctors practicing in the former Eastern bloc have some training in the West, and their offices use the same equipment as in London, Frankfurt or New York.

The price difference for most procedures is enormous. Laser eye correction surgery, which rarely costs under €4,000, or about $5,020, in Western Europe, costs about €1,000 for the travelers. "My total cost was €1,000 for both eyes, and with regard to the quality and service it was great - I have no concerns," said Don Ellis, a retired U.S. defense contractor, after a post-op checkup.

A crown, which would cost between €800 and €1,000 in Western Europe, runs only about €250 here, at an up-market dental office, fashioned by a master ceramicist. Most work is guaranteed for 3 to 5 years.

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